In short, things look bad.

But, perversely, all this climatic drama gives photographers opportunity to capture images of sublime, if terrible, beauty.

Like the main image at the top of this story: Carl De Souza’s stunning image of the sun setting over the Amazon as more than 80,000 fires burn, sending tonnes of smoke into the sky and turning the sun a brilliant vermilion.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: A high definition camera outside the International Space Station captured a NASA view of the eye of Hurricane Florence in September 2018. Hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more intense as ocean temperatures rise, putting vast areas of the southern and eastern US and Caribbean nations at risk.

CHILE: A resident rides his horse on the floor of the Aculeo Lagoon lake bed, in Paine, Chile, in August. Officials in Chile say that the capital city Santiago and its outskirts are suffering from the worst drought in decades.

THAILAND: A man braves the rain and quickly-flooding streets of Bangkok during a tropical downpour on August 22. Thailand's monsoon brings heavy rains from July through October, often triggering floods. Bangkok is one of several cities around the world that is slowly sinking.

ABOVE: Steffen Olsen, a scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute, was on a routine mission in Greenland to retrieve oceanographic and weather monitoring tools when his dog-sledding team was forced to plough across what used to be an ice field that had been turned to water by higher-than-normal temperatures. He posted the image and video to Twitter in June and received a massive response.

ANTARCTICA: This NASA image shows an aerial view of the Larsen C ice rift in Antarctica in 2017. A trillion-tonne iceberg, one of the biggest on record, snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, said scientists who had been monitoring the growing crack for months. A 5,800-square kilometre section broke away. There is a fear more of Antarctica’s vast glaciers and ice shelves will break off, causing large rises in sea levels.

BRAZIL: Skeletons of burnt out trees make for a haunting sight near Abuna, in Rondonia state, Brazil. More than 80,000 fires have been raging for weeks through the Amazon rainforest, as a growing global outcry over the blazes sparks protests and threatens a huge trade deal.

UNITED STATES A boat passes through a flooded neighbourhood of Wallace, North Carolina during record floods that covered much of the east of the state in the wake of Hurricane Florence in 2018.

UNITED STATES: A giant storm supercell forms over the plains of Colorado in June 2019. Supercells are one of the most powerful weather formations found over land. Also known as rotating thunderstorms, supercells can produce winds over 160km and can uproot trees and obliterate buildings. With global warming, there is a fear these storms could become more intense and more widespread.

GREENLAND: The Apusiajik glacier, near Kulusuk, on the southeastern shore of Greenland. Greenland’s glaciers are melting at record levels this year due to record high temperatures throughout the Arctic Circle.

UNITED STATES: During Hurricane Irma in 2017, the St. Johns River hit record flood heights in Jacksonville, Florida. Many coastal communities in Florida, including Miami, are at high risk of becoming uninhabitable in the next 100 years due to sea level rises.

CHILE: A boat sits parked the floor of the Aculeo Lagoon lake bed, in Paine, Chile, in August, 2019. The capital Santiago and its outskirts are suffering from the worst drought in decades

UKRAINE: A child plays in a fountain to refresh themselves during a heatwave in Kiev in August, 2019. The summer of 2019 brought record temperatures to many parts of Europe, with France, Germany and the UK all recording their highest-ever temperatures.

UNITED STATES: Water recedes from around a fish camp in Wilkerson Bayou, Louisiana, following Hurricane Barry in July 2019. Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states are highly susceptible to flooding from hurricane-induced storm surges.

ITALY: St. Mark's Square in Venice regularly goes under water as it did during a high-water alert in 2018. The flooding, caused by a convergence of high tides and a strong Sirocco wind, reached around 150cm. These events are expected to become more frequent in coming years, while Venice is one of several cities around the globe which would be among the most likely to go under with rising sea levels.

AUSTRALIA: A massive dust storm sweeps into the NSW town of Junee in March, 2019. Extended drought conditions in large parts of eastern Australia make topsoil susceptible to forming dust storms, which have become a regular occurrence in country areas.